"Elder Brother!"
Nur screamed.
"No! Don't come closer!"
I pushed her with all my remaining strength. She looked at me with tears in her eyes.
"Take Zehra and run! Hunters must be close!"
I tried to get up and failed. I looked at the object piercing my right thigh. A black spear made out of same material as his armor. So he used different weapons. Considering he were able to wrap a chain around my neck before the fact that this spear was stuck in my leg meant that he wanted to immobilize me. Wound hurt like hell. When I took a closer look, I saw that the skin around the wound became darker. Poison? Or perhaps a curse? If that was the case I should pull the spear. But seeing where it was stuck, pulling meant dying in seconds due blood loss. I don't know which one is worse.
"You abandoned your humanity. Became a monstrosity. For your human self, I will kill you."
He walked slowly towards me. Black miasma around him gathered and solidified into shape of a longsword. So he created his weapons.
"I have one wish. Will you listen it?"
That was it. I couldn't go on.
"I will not spare your life."
"That's not my wish. My only wish is you to don't hurt my sisters. Only that."
If I had to take one last action, it would be saving my sisters.
"I only kill monsters. I had no intention of hurting them from start."
Good. I closed my eye. If they were safe, that was enough. I could rest easy.
"My brother isn't a monster! He is a hunter! He fought to protect people for years!"
I felt the weight of Nur pressing my body. She got between me and Death Knight and hugged me.
"That thing is no longer your brother. He is a vampire. He is worst kind of scum. Killing him would be honoring his human self."
"No! If he were a monster why would he come to save us! Why would he push me away? Why!"
"Get out of the way."
"You have to kill me first! Brother protected me for all this years as a hunter! Now it is my time to protect him!"
"Your brother already died, little girl. What left is just a leech wearing his skin!"
Zehra flipped the bird towards the Death Knight.
"He will always be my brother. If he became a monster, I would pull him back to humanity!"
I felt the tears forming in my eye. I… I was a cold person. To make matters worse, I wasn't even with her due missions and combat school. Yet, she thought of me like this? A lump formed in my throat. If she cared this much about her emotionless, cold brother how could I accept death this easily? I had to do something too!
"Death Knight. You are claiming I am a monster because I became a vampire. Let me ask you a question: If that's true, you are also a monster! What right do you have to kill me?"
He paused due my words.
"Because I haven't lost my humanity. I am still on humanity's side."
"So I am! I only became a vampire because if I didn't I would have died!"
"Then you should have died! Your grandfather died like a human! If dying meant that keeping your honor as a human, you should have died!"
Now it was my turn to pause.
"What? What do you know about my grandfather? How do you know about my grandfather!"
"It doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that you betrayed your ancestor. Pay it with your life!"
Chains were wrapped around Nur's body and pulled her away from me without me reacting. Countless blades were formed from black miasma. All of them were pointed towards me.
"I will tear you heart and brain at same time. You won't be able to regenerate."
All of them flew towards me in flashing speeds. Before they could pierce me I lost consciousness.
"Wow, that was close!"
Blonde woman spoke in a playful tone. She held the wounded Burak in her arms.
"Seriously, making me come here so soon! I should have known that you would be trouble. Especially, since you are his kin. Well, now you are mine so I have to look after you."
"Elizabeth Bathory!"
Death Knight growled.
"That's a cold welcome. We haven't seen each other for ten years and that's how you welcome me?"
"Only welcome I will give to you is death!"
Miasma converged in one blade, making it bigger and longer.
"If you keep this up, they will die. If you don't care about Burak, care about others."
Elizabeth spoke as she pointed towards Zehra and Nur's unconscious bodies. Death Knight took a look and miasma around him lessened.
"Let me do a thing and we can speak."
She bit the Burak's neck. With her fangs she delivered some of her blood to his body. Burak frowned for a minute but then his body started to heal.
"You know, you are not the only one who kept his humanity after turning into something else. You don't need to go and kill my bloodkin."
"If he kept his humanity, why he were doing deals with an Abdon?"
Elizabeth sighed.
"You are hasty as ever. Look at his wounds. Do you think if he were doing deals with him why would he has claw marks?"
Elizabeth spoke in a relaxed tone.
"Boy been through a lot of. He saw his friends get killed in front of him by a werewolf. Me and Edward weren't able to catch him in time because we were trying to avoid you. When we finally arrived, he were fatally wounded. Only way he could survive was turning into a vampire and I did that."
"You stole his humanity."
"Bloody hell. I saved his life! If you cared about his humanity this much you could have helped him!"
"He should have died with his humanity. That's the highest honor a human can have. A honor you stole from both of us."
Elizabeth's face slowly turned sour.
"At least he kept protecting his family after turning. Unlike someone I know!"